[Accidental voice post | A lover's spat | Action for Attleton]

[k2so]

…and I’d say, it just turns out I can’t leave you alone for five minutes.

[The phones tune in to the sweet dulcet tones of Cassian at his grumpiest. Kay had picked up his communicator from the floor after it was dropped by accident during a fight with Akihiko, and he accidentally turned on the voice option.]

Maybe if someone has gotten here sooner instead or away getting a coffee fix things would have gone differently.

[The droid snaps back, unable to keep the snappy tone out of his voice. He is rarely this confrontational with Cassian but he's in a terrible mood because the joints of his right arm seem to have been affected by Caesar's lighting attack.]

Maybe if someone had learnt to follow orders sometime within the last decade things wouldn't fall apart as soon as I take a coffee break!

[And off they are...10 years of petty grievances being dug up and flung at another as they work through their frustrations and feelings of helplessness in their very own way.  They're very loud and not very nice.]

Comments

[whiteas]

A romantic partnership is supposed to be equal. You should be communicating everything to each other and no one person should have say over the other because then it's not an equal partnership. You should also be able to compromise, and have a place to get away from each other when you need personal space. It's also entirely possible to put your priorities over the priorities of your job and give special treatment to the person you're with, so it could actually prove to be a detriment to Cassian if the other team members recognize you're getting special treatment and aren't accepting of it but that's less about you and more about the team dynamic being different. So I would say you two need to sort out exactly what's acceptable in the workplace versus at home and how you're going to separate the two fairly, including how your dynamic has be different between the two. He shouldn't still be bossing you around at home like he does at work.

[k2so]

[Putting his priorities and needs over his job.

Kay's brain is doing the computer date equivalent of ???????????????? at that information, since his job always has been primarily to look after Cassian.

Objectively, he knows Weiss is right and that's good advice. But until today he hasn't even consider it so he's now looking rather lost.]

He doesn't boss me all that much at home, promise. But...your' right. I'll think about your advice. Thanks, Weiss.

[whiteas]

You're welcome.

[ She hopes it helps them. She's had a lot of relationship drama, it should benefit someone!!! ]

[k2so]

Did this happen to you too?

I didn't consider you might be dating one of your deputies. [But it could add to the reasons why she resigned as guardian. There's a pause, and then Kay adds.] Was it Mercury?

[whiteas]

[ She makes such a face. GOD. ]

Don't be gross. I have faith in him, I'm not interested romantically. We're not even friends. I love Sun.

[k2so]

[Ey, it's not as if Kay knew.]

Oh...who's Sun? I don't think I've ever talked with her. Er..him? Them?

[Just dig that hole further, Kay, good job.]

[whiteas]

Him, he's blonde with amazing abs and a monkey tail. He works over in Fayren, and owns Under the Sun and Over the Moon. He runs the Beacon Bounty Boards too.

[ she sends him a picture ]

[k2so]

I don't think never talked but he seems nice.

Is he not human? That's why he has a tail?

[whiteas]

He's a faunus. They're a prominent species on my world characterized by some form of a single animalian characteristic, night vision, and a couple of other species specific characteristics.

[k2so]

Interesting. Are the traits hereditary? If you had an offspring with him it might have a tail too?

[whiteas]

[ wow Kay what a question. She hesitates for a moment, both because she's thrown by the question and because it's a very clear reminder that it doesn't matter how much they love each other, that's a life they probably won't be able to have. ]

If we were to, I imagine it might. It would definitely have my hair color, but it's a big if. It's never happening unless we can figure out how to stay here for the rest of our lives.

[k2so]

[Sorry Weiss, Kay isn't very good at brain-to-mouth filter. Nothing personal, he quite likes you.]

That would be cute. However, not knowing what could happen or if we were going to be dragged back to our own home-world all of sudden is very upsetting.

[He has that same fear.]

[whiteas]

There's a reason the GSRF was founded to research having a choice in whether we stay or go.

[ not having a future sucks. Not remembering not being alone also sucks. There are plenty of dead people here too. ]

[k2so]

Yes but so far there hasn't been much success, right?

[Kay can only hope that if Cassian were to disappear, Kay could go with him. Even if they are one of those dead people who have nowhere to go.]

[whiteas]

It's been two years. Science and research takes time. I just.. hope it isn't too much.

[ She doesn't want to lose anyone else, and at this point... ]

Sun is in love with my friend back home. I'm alone, with no home and nothing but a suitcase and an idea. Like my brother said, I'm the same in some ways, but very different in others. Not existing here would be like not existing, and this person I am now will never exist again. I'm not the only one that's happened to, and certainly not the only one who needs a home now more than ever. I'll find a way to make this work.